Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West is a 1999 book by Len Ackland

Len Ackland

Len Ackland is a professor at the University of Colorado and co-director of the Center for Environmental Journalism.He graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a bachelor's degree in history, and from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.He was a...

. Ackland draws on information obtained from governmental sources, federal contractors, personal interviews, and newspaper articles to form a multi-layered history about the controversial Rocky Flats nuclear facility

Rocky Flats Plant

The Rocky Flats Plant was a United States nuclear weapons production facility near Denver, Colorado that operated from 1952 to 1992. It was under the control of the United States Atomic Energy Commission until 1977, when it was replaced by the Department of Energy .-1950s:Following World War II,...

. The book also explores the creation and collapse of the nuclear weapons complex in the United States.

Reviews of Making a Real Killing have been published in Environmental History and Pacific Historical Review.

Len Ackland is the former editor of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and director for environmental journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder

University of Colorado at Boulder

The University of Colorado Boulder is a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado...

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See also

• Dark Circle, and award-winning PBS documentary
• List of books about nuclear issues
• List of anti-nuclear protests in the United States